The Morning Brew

Software

• AgDLR 0.5 – Harry Pierson highlights the release of AgDLR 0.5, which is an integration between the Dynamic Language Runtime languages and Silverlight. These languages are currently IronRuby and IronPython, and this release includes support for Silverlight 3 beta
• Spice up your IE with spicIE – Writing IE7/8 Plugins in managed code in minutes (beta) – Greg Duncan highlights spicIE, a framework that makes it easy to create plug-ins for Internet Explorer 7 and 8 in Managed code

Information

• The Tarantino Project – Database Change Management – Rob Reynolds takes a look at the Tarantino Project, a tool for use from NAnt which deals with database changes allowing you to keep your databases up to date easily
• ViewState 101 – Tony Lombardo goes back to first principles on a classic pain point for Web Forms applications, the viewstate, looking at why it exists, how it works and what can be done about making it smaller
• Entities: Required Properties And Properties That Shouldn’t Be Modified – Davy Brion looks at a common mistake that gets made with NHibernate mappings, having getter and setter properties for all persisted properties, and looks at how you can improve your entities by avoiding this
• Persistence Patterns in MSDN Magazine – Jeremy D. Miller plugs his latest MSDN Magazine column which takes a look at the less well understood data acess patterns such as active record, data mapper, repositories, etc
• Building an Optimized, Graphics-Intensive Silverlight Application – Tim Sneath shares his notes from Seema Ramchandani’s MIX09 talk on creating high performance graphics applications in Silverlight, including discussions of testing using XPerf
• Dime Cast # 95 – Building a Progressive Fluent Interface – Derik Whittaker picks up on the article featured yesterday and looks at creating a Progressive Fluent Interface in his latest screencast at Dime Casts.
• Building Silverlight 2 and Silverlight 3 Beta applications on the same machine – Jeff Wilcox – Jeff Wilcox talks looks at how you can keep your development environment able to build Silverlight 2 while also being able to build Silverlight 3 beta projects
• Silverlight Cream – I’m not going to be covering Silverlight in huge detail, just linking to the od article I find interesting. If Silverlight is something you care about I suggest you also subscribe to this Blog which does an excelent daily post rounding up all the best Silverlight news and articles
• Tip of the Day #9 (The Project Location Is Not Trusted) – Colin Angus Mackay shares a useful tip about not trusted locations and how Windows uses the alternate file stream to store information about the security of items downloaded from the internet
• SQL SERVER – 2008 – SCOPE_IDENTITY Bug with Multi Processor Parallel Plan and Solution – Pinal Dave talks about an issue with SCOPE_IDENTITY() and multi processor systems on SQL 2008, offering a few solutions to the problem

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